About
Holly Elissa Bruno, MA, JD
Keynoter and Workshop Presenter
Ms. Bruno's engaging keynotes and workshops delight organizations with a mission for the greater good.
Please contact Holly Elissa at:
BRUNO DURATURO Keynotes and Teambuilding
35 Gates Road,
Sterling, MA 01564
Telephone & facsimile: 978-563-1174
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Holly Elissa Bruno, MA, JD, author, attorney and acclaimed keynote speaker hosts online radio program: Heart to Heart Conversations on Leadership: Your Guide to Making a Difference on BAMradionetwork.com.
Holly Elissa served as Assistant Attorney General for the state of Maine and Assistant Dean at the University of Maine School of Law. While working as Associate Professor and Dean of Faculty at the University of Maine-Augusta, Holly Elissa was selected "Outstanding Professor".
An alumna of Harvard University's Institute for Educational Management, she teaches leadership and management courses for The McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership and Wheelock College.
Holly Elissa’s books include What You Need to Lead an Early Childhood Program: Emotional Intelligence in Practice (NAEYC, 2012), Leading on Purpose: Emotionally intelligent Early Childhood Administration (McGraw-Hill, 2008), and two upcoming books: Dowsing brush fires before the wind picks up: Preventing legal hot spots from flaring up in early childhood programs (Teachers Press, 2012) and Lessons in Leadership (Redleaf Press, 2013).
A frequent contributor to Child Care Exchange and NAEYC's Young Children journal, Holly Elissa interviews can be heard on NAEYC, National Head Start Assoication, National Association of Child Care Professionals and National Association of School Principals radio stations.
Holly Elissa's keynotes receive stellar audience reviews from Reykjavik to Phoenix, Tulsa to Tampa and and Washington, DC to Anchorage, Alaska. To “recovering attorney” Holly Elissa, life is a joyous daily adventure.
Tune in to Holly Elissa's online radio program, Heart to heart Conversations on Leadership: Your guide to making a difference at BAMradionetwork.com or via Holly's website: hollyelissabruno.com
Here is her much more detailed bio:
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designs and delivers original programs on team building, emotional intelligence
(EQ), resolving conflict, legal and ethical issues, multicultural "family
friendly" practices, resilient leadership and managing power dynamics
among women at work. Certified to use both Myers-Briggs (MBTI) and Birkman
leadership inventories, she is consistently evaluated as a presenter "with
an uplifting sense of humor" who"inspires and transforms".
Holly Elissa, an alumna of Harvard University's Institute for Educational
Management, was selected outstanding professor at the University of Maine-Augusta.
She served as Academic Dean at that campus, Assistant Dean at University
of Maine Law School, and Strategic Planner for the University of Maine
system. As adjunct faculty at Wheelock College and Quinsigamond Community
College, she teaches management and communication.
Having practiced as an attorney, Ms. Bruno specializes in personnel law
including hiring, firing, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
when training managerial and staff teams. She is a former Assistant Attorney
General for the state of Maine and senior manager, in-house counsel at
Copyright Clearance Center in Massachusetts.
Ms. Bruno heads BRUNO DURATURO Keynotes and Teambuilding, in the Boston area. Clients have included Headstart, Families and Work Institute, Bright Horizons, World Bank, John Hancock, Frank Porter Graham Center (UNC), Wellesley College, Boston's Inner city Director's Network, WV Department of Education, the Cherokee Nation and numerous non- profit organizations.
Her keynotes and workshops have inspired audiences from Budapest to Albuquerque, Orlando to Chicago, Washington, DC, to Oklahoma City. She is an invited speaker at annual conferences including: NAEYC, NAEYC Professional Development Institute, National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), Smart Start, Region IV Headstart, NCCA (National Childcare Association) and National Louis University's Leadership Connections Conference.
Holly Elissa earned her BA (English) from Douglass College of Rutgers University, MA (English and Education) from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and JD from the University of Maine School of Law.
She has published several articles on leadership in competitive national journals, Leadership QUEST and Childcare Information Exchange. Topics range from managing change, caring for the caregiver, legal and ethical issues, internal customer service, decision-making, staff motivation, to countering organizational gossip and negativity.
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